If you don't remember Muse, she was made by Windows Live to help spark some interests into doing what Live Spaces is really more about : Blogging. She's suppose to give you some ideas to help you get jumpstarted on blogging. She looks very similar to a Where's Waldo character. She has a 2-post blog. She's kind of died off though, but her WLM bot still exists. She'll help you get some ideas with the Though of the Day, and you can even make a blog post in the activity pane.

Add [email protected], to your Messenger contact list. Muse is the latest bot built on the platform Microsoft acquired from Colloquis last fall. In addition to thoughts to post about, which are generated from the Muse thought of the day, or a quick conversation with Muse, you can post your blog posting directly out of Windows Live Messenger experience via the Muse Activity Applcation to your space thought the Muse agent.

Kingston University re-launched its international student portal and put smartAgent at the core. Potential new students from all over the world have been engaging with one of six characters who show them around University and answer questions about life as an international student, not only at Kingston but also the United Kingdom. The smartAgent is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, crucial when dealing with enquiries from any time zone.

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The Chat Bot Future

A chat bot is a humanlike conversational character.
Its conversational skills and other humanlike behaviour is simulated through artificial intelligence.
It often acts as a virtual assistant and it can have its own visualisation through an avatar
or it is faceless. We expect that through the years every conversational chat bot will grow into a real virtual human.